Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. As a compromise, he had offered before to commit this less injustice on the person of the prisoner, in hope of that contenting them. (See page 465, first column, second paragraph, and second column, third paragraph.) But this victim of conflicting emotions is now resigning himself to the fiendish clamours of a Jewish mob, set on by sacerdotal hypocrites. This scourging, says Philo Judoeus, was what was inflicted on the worst criminals. The next step was the following, recorded in Matthew 27:27; and Mark 15:16: "Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall ('the Praetorium'), and gathered unto him the whole band (of soldiers)" - the body of the military cohort stationed there, to take part in the mock-coronation now to be enacted.